Posted by utopizen on October 30, 2002, at 0:35:13
In reply to Re: No, the word hyperactivity isn't vague... » utopizen, posted by IsoM on October 29, 2002, at 12:31:40
Seeing I live in Canada, perhaps the terminology varies somewhat from the States. I've never talked with anyone (people with ADD, doctors, or the two psychologists I discussed it with) who called ADHD/inattentive type anything but ADD.
>>they're not necessarily "wrong", it's just that technically the inattentive subtype is considered "ADHD without hyperactivity, inattentive". It would be illogical to think that a subtype that is a category within ADHD could suddenly stop being ADHD.
Think of ADHD as a tree, and then think of three branches on the ADHD tree. Since you can't make up a new tree, you have to hop to one of the branches. And one of these branches is the inattentive subtype. It still is a subtype, and not a separate disorder.
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